The 3 best books by the rebel… Jack Kerouac

On many occasions, literary authenticity ends up bordering on an extremist concept in the vital, existential and even behavioral aspects. That is the case of Jack Kerouac. His early end was written about his way of seeing life and his subsequent actions.

The same cannot be said of the other great representative of the Beat generation, William burroughs, but the second should have added to all the above a pact with the devil ...

HERE IS A VOLUME WITH THE BEST OF KEROUAC

Returning to Kerouac, being the maximum exponent of the beat generation (which he would also join as the third leg of the Allen Ginsberg bank), meant for him a continuous debt with the criticism of what exists, with the repudiation of all convention and with the search for alternatives to the prevailing morality in addition to a nihilistic and ultimately destructive experimentation in its clash in front of the wall of a stubborn reality.

So for Kerouac it was all a matter of searching for the limits while insisting on relating them. And hence one of those real testimonies that read like the novel of a life that did not find any fit with the rules of the game. Until his legacy was embraced by the hippie movement, much more massive, that would come later.

Jack Kerouac's Top 3 Recommended Books:

In the path

Every current or belief has its bible. Those who approach the beat movement find in this novel the guidelines of the trend.

De Kerouac is valued, above all, his writing without concealment or artifice, very in tune with Bukowski and its dirty realism (I never really understood the difference between the two tendencies if in essence they mark the same disenchantment with the established).

The point is that this book is the journey, the intention, the ideas, the desires, the frustrations, the search for that mystical something that manages to give wings to reality, the adventure of living on the rope, the glimpses of a whole counterculture , denial and rebellion.

Youth as the lucidity of discovering that there is nothing beyond the days of wine and roses, doom as liberation and the sensation of an acid background of truth exposed naked to the world.

The Dharma Wanderers

In this desire to find sustenance for the soul, far beyond everything that stinks the West and its double standards, Kerouac explored Buddhism, with its aura of religion that demands complete consonance with acts.

The only aspect in which a hopeful Kerouac can be read is in this haven of spirituality instrumentalized towards ultimate hedonism, peace of the soul.

The knowledge of ideas so far removed from other tortuous religions of the United States or Europe made Kerouac consider that he could finally find hope in the human being under the auspices of this new way of seeing the world and sharing it with others.

A journey that the author shares with his generation companions, whom he portrays on various occasions during the book.

Big sur

About this book we must launch a notice for sailors. It is more than likely that while Kerouac began to write this book, he gathered substances with which he could agree to narrate the unspeakable of unconsciousness.

If you could write while we sleep, the result would probably be something like this book. Raised to excessive literary levels, it can be, reviled for lack of perspective, do not rule it out either.

What is clear is that in this writing that at times seems typical of an automatic narrative, those moments of glory of the mind of a singular author are also savored, dedicated to the cause of blurring a reality that does not convince him.

If a book can acquire value by reaching deep spaces of its author, then without a doubt it will be a masterpiece of creative uniqueness.